The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1887-01-15
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
Senate.


WEDNESDAY, Jan. 5.-The Senate took up
the Interstate commerce bill, and Senator
Platt spoke in opposition to its passage.
Mr.. Mitchell, of Pennsylvania, introduced
bill granting a 50 600 pension to Mrs
Logan, and asked for its immediate action
Objection was made, and action went
over.
THURSDAY, Jan. 6.-Senator spooner in
troduced a memorial from the state grange
OF Wisconsin favoring the passage of the
interstate commerce bill Mr. Henderson
introduced a bill looking to demand for
indemnity from Mexico for the killing OF
Capt. Crawford. The Senate, on motion
OF Mr.. Mitchell, OF Pennsylvania, took up
the bill giving a pension OF $4,000 81 year
to Mary S. Logan, widow of Gen. John A.
Logan as malor general of volunteers. The
bill was passed without division. A bill in
creasing the pension of the widow of Gen.
Frank Blair to the same amount WAS also
passed.
FRIDAY, Jan. AFTER brief discussion
OF the Interstate commerce bill the Senate
proceeded to business on the calendar and
passed the following bills: To settle and
a6 lust the claims OF any state for expenses
incurred by il in defense OF the United
States. For the relief of John McNaughton,
of Ohio, an ex-lieutenant in the volunteer
service. This bill was discussed at consid-
cradle length, as 1t involved the principle
OF paying the compensation of higher
grade while the claimant held and drew the
pay OF a lower grade. A bill appropriating
$50. 600 for the widow and daughter of
Erskine s. Allen formerly master armorer
at Springfield armoryl, the inventor of
the Springfield breech-loading rifle mus
ket, in compensation for the use of
the invention by the government. Mr..
Manderson, from the committee on mill
tary affairs, reported back the House bill
providing for q school os instruction for
| cavalry and light artillery at Fort Riley,
kas., and for the construction of quarters
for the army at certain posts. The bill was
| amended by appropriating $50 900 for
Fort ID. A. Russell and $50, 900 for Fort
johnson, Neb., and was passed. On mo
ton OF Mr.. Spooner the House bill for the
relief OF Bangs, Brownell & Co, (appropri-
ating So: OUO) was taken up and passed.
On motion of Mr., Evarts the Senate bill to
refund S3 ,562 to Simon, Bache 4 Co., for
duty paid on glass imported for the Ma.
tional Museum and for the New Orleans
Exposition building was taken up and
passed. Adjourned till Monday.
House.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 5.-The bill authorizing
the issue by the treasury of 2b per cent.
bonds to an amount not exceeding S5 ,000,-
600 for the Improvement of the Erie and
Oswego Canals was taken up in committee
OF the whole and discussed at some length.
No action was taken. Both the Indian and
military academy appropriation bills we're
passed, there being no opposition to any
of their features. The firstnamed bill ap-
propriates S5.l15 900. The resignation
OF Congressman Jas. w. Reid, of North
Carolina, was received and laid upon the
table.
THURSDAY, Jan. 6.-The House in COM
mittee of the whole resumed considera tipn
OF the bill for the Improvement of the Erie
and Oswego canal. No action was reached.
The pension bill which appropriates S76-
247, 47,5OO-being only $4,000 below the esti-
mates-the reduction being in the item for
the rent OF offices for pension agencies-was
taken up. Without amendment or dis
cussion, the bill was read, reported to the
House, and passed.
FRIDAY, Jan. 7.-On motion of Mr.. Per
kins (kas.) q Senate bin was passe
amending the act providing for the sale OF
the Sac and Fox and Iowa Indian reserva
tions in Nebraska and Kansas. (The
| amendment provides for the allotment OF
lands in severalfy to minors and orphans J
Mr.. Hatch (Mo.) made an unsuccessful
effort to have private business dispensed
with for the day for the purpose of ena
| bling the House to resume the consideration
OF the bill for the creation of a department
of agriculture and labor; but the House
went into committee CT the whole (Mr. J
Mcmillan, of Tennessee in the chair on
the private ca lendar. The committee soon
rose and bali a dozen private bills were
passed, after which the House took a recess
till 7:30 the evening session to be for the
consideration OF pension bills.
SATURDAY. Jan. S.-Mr. Hiscock, OF New
York, introduced bill reducing the duty on
sugar and repeating the internal revenue
tax on tobacco and distilled spirits for
mechanical purposes. The bill for the re.
organization of the navy was debated in
committee OF the whole, but no action was
taken. An amendment reducing the pro-
posed appropriation of $500, 600 for a
public building at Charleston, S. C., to
$500, 900 was offered by Hepburn, ofIowa,
but was lost, and the bill went over. A
bill was reported from the committee on
Indian affairs for the purchase OF a site for
an Indian training school near Salem,
Ore. The Senate bill repeating the tenure
OF office act was reported back from the
committee on civil service reform. Mr..
Willis, OF Kentucky, reported the river and
harbor appropriation bill.